PHOTO RESOURCE GUIDE

When you're looking for that one perfect image, the wealth of stock photography out there can be overwhelming. So we've gathered some of our favorite stock resources into one place so you can quickly see who's offering what—a one-stop directory of rights-managed and royalty-free imagery. We'll update this page as more information comes available; check back for new listings.

Animals Animals/Earth Scenes Animals Animals/ Earth Scenes is a niche agency specializing in natural history imagery. In business for over 30 years, we have a collection of more than 1 million images including subjects such as wildlife, domestic animals, scenics, botany, geology, weather, travel and outdoor sports. www.animalsanimals.com

Art Resource Art Resource is the world's most comprehensive source of fine art images available for licensing, offering images from over 6,000 museums, representing officially the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, the Louvre etc. With over 250,000 images online and millions more accessible, we put the power of the masterpiece at your fingertips. www.artres.com

Blend Images Blend Images is a boutique stock agency with an exclusive niche focus on ethnically diverse lifestyle and business imagery. The collection celebrates ethnic and cultural diversity, reflecting the realities of today's multicultural society. Blend creates vibrant, culturally relevant imagery, capturing the real-life essence of a variety of ethnic groups. www.blendimages.com

The Bridgeman Art Library The Bridgeman Art Library is renowned as the world's richest source of fine art images covering all periods, movements, styles and media. The archive grows weekly in depth and inclusiveness, with impressive holdings of black and white photography, archaeology, historical artifacts and illustration of disciplines ranging from medicine to music to everything in-between. www.bridgemanart.com

BrightQube BrightQube is a new online creative resource changing how the world finds images. BrightQube's innovation allows people, for the first time ever, to view all relevant images at once, making browsing through page after page of search results a thing of the past. BrightQube has over 2.5 million royalty-free and microstock images ready for purchase and download. www.brightqube.com

Danita Delimont Specializing in evocative and iconic representations of worldwide travel destinations, natural habitats and ecosystems, animal behavior, landscapes and lifestyles. The collection also includes a diversity of world cultures and traditional lifestyles, especially appropriate for educational publishing. Danita Delimont represents over 300 world-class photographers and several international agencies. www.DanitaDelimont.com

Digital Railroad Search over 10 million high-quality stock photos at Digital Railroad, home to imagery you won't find anywhere else. DRR's Marketplace offers a diverse selection of creative royalty-free and rights-managed, along with editorial, travel, entertainment and more, all shot by DRR's global community of professional photographers and photo agencies. drr.net

Erickson Stock Erickson Stock is home to more than 20,000 images ranging in content from emotional lifestyle and business to stunning landscapes and architecture. With the quality and consistency of Ericksonstock images, it's easy to create seamless, one of a kind campaigns. Visit www.ericksonstock.com Download your next campaign! www.ericksonstock.com

Everett Collection Everett Collection is an entertainment photo agency with an unmatched archive spanning the history of film and television combined with current red carpet celebrity events. Everett also offers vintage stock photography for advertising and design and now represents several important world history collections such as Mary Evans, Mirrorpix and Keystone. www.everettcollection.com

Getty Images Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage, music, multi-media products, and other forms of premium digital content. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how it is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life. www.gettyimages.com

Grant Heilman Photography, Inc. Grant Heilman Photography, Inc. is the world's most noted source of agricultural photography, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Our passion is to provide our customers with the highest quality imagery, knowledgeable image research and superior customer service. Our collection of over a million images from more than 150 professional photographers contains the finest agriculture, natural science, horticulture, wildlife, travel and lifestyle imagery found anywhere. Our exclusive vintage collection of black and white farm-life photography showcases rural America from 1920 through 1960. www.heilmanphoto.com

Jupiterimages By offering premium rights-managed, royalty-free and subscription imagery, we've made a big name for ourselves—Jupiterimages. We turn ideas into successful designs. Our popular Jupiterimages Unlimited, the ultimate collection of royalty-free images by subscription, fills image needs and offers flexible plans that don't empty budgets. Come visit us and see! www.jupiterimages.com www.jupiterimages.com/unlimited

Map Resources Royalty Free Maps for Graphic Design Over 2,000 royalty free digital maps of all areas of the earth—world maps, globes, regions, countries, cities. Purchase and download 24/7. Created for design professionals, maps are intelligently layered and fully editable with Adobe Illustrator. Users can remove features, change colors, resize, edit text, font or style. www.mapresources.com

Masterfile Masterfile is the world's leading independent stock photography agency. We offer an exceptional collection of rights-managed and royalty-free contemporary lifestyle imagery, and many other in-demand subjects (business, concepts, travel, the environment, fashion, etc.). Our unique search tools like SimSearch and Tag Cloud make finding pictures quicker and easier. Log onto masterfile.com and find what you're looking for—fast! www.masterfile.com

MFA Images MFA Images offers over 150,000 high-quality images for publishing needs, from illustrating an art history textbook to capturing attention on the cover of a novel. MFA Images has historical portraits, examples of different art movements, images of objects from numerous cultures and beautiful illustrations that span the Museum's encyclopedic collection. www.mfa.org/mfaimages

National Geographic National Geographic Stock is a unique and comprehensive collection that portrays our planet's diverse peoples, creatures, landscapes and lifestyles as only National Geographic can. We offer rights managed and royalty free stock photography. www.ngsimages.com/ngsimages/welcome.jsf

North Wind Picture Archives History is our specialty. Our collection is unique in covering the daily life of ordinary people in times past. Our exclusive illustrations in vibrant color portray all subjects, including explorers, colonists, native people, science, commerce, intellectual movements, literature, natural history and portraits of important historical persons. We also stock photographs of historic sites, reenactments, ruins, and monuments. www.northwindpictures.com

The Photolibrary Group The Photolibrary Group represents over 250 of the world's leading brands and 2,000+ photographers from around the world, to bring memorable, workable content to the creative communities of Europe, America, Asia and the Pacific. We provide customers with access to over 3 million images and over 2,000 hours of footage. www.photolibrary.com www.indexopen.com

PhotoShelter Collection The PhotoShelter Collection is an online marketplace for fresh, diverse stock photography. We're different because we take care of our community—with photographers getting a share of every sale that's much bigger than the other guys. That's why 16,000 talented photographers worldwide, both professional and amateur, have chosen PhotoShelter to market their work. www.photoshelter.com

Rubberball Rubberball is an independent studio that features timeless and cutting-edge stock imagery and film footage. With a rapidly expanding collection and a firm focus on concept and emotional connectivity, the Rubberball team is constantly discovering what is missing from the market and capturing the pictures that benefit designers most. www.rubberball.com

Shutterstock Founded in 2003, Shutterstock® is one of the leading stock photo agencies in the industry. Its outstanding collection of premium images combined with a user-friendly subscription model has made it a trusted resource for an expanding global customer base. www.shutterstock.com

Stock Archive WE ADMIT IT, we are not the best stock photo agency. We kinda look at things in a different way. But...maybe that's a good thing? Stock photos. High quality, low cost, and model released. www.stock-archive.com

Visuals Unlimited Visuals Unlimited is a leading provider of rights managed and royalty free scientific and healthcare imagery. Our extensive collection covers medical issues, microscopic imagery, agriculture, geology, nature and more. We represent the finest microscopic photographers in the world in addition to illustrators, medical photographers and award-winning nature photographers. www.visualsunlimited.com